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To the guy (yes I'm assuming guy) who searched for "how much attention do girlfriends need at parties" your answer is a lot! But I'm sure you will FAIL at this since you are searching Yahoo for an answer to this question.

So I've been in a deep writers block for the past couple of weeks, and it is getting a little irritating as I usually have at least 1-2 items in the hopper (sometimes 5-6)! I decided to push karma and plurk my need for some blogging fodder. Well, it came.

Along with my writers block, I've been having a rough time in general and it is unfortunately beginning to make negative impressions on my attitude and actions. After having a great dinner celebrating Eric's birthday, we returned home to start getting the boys back to bed. Gavin became fixated on trying to repair a PEZ dispenser and was not listening to my four requests of "drop the toy, and goto bed" and "Are you listening?". Gavin had a bad day of listening and my fuse was short, so I walked down and just yelled "DROP IT NOW, AND GOTO BED". This was not any normal yell. I would classify it as a barbaric yawp or a Gladiator about ready to attack while standing at the front line, eye-to-eye with his enemy. One of those where anyone standing in the room... their heart just stops and thinks "that [bad] parent has lost it". It needed to get out, but horrible that I directed it at Gavin... and I felt miserable about 3 seconds later after I comprehend what I had just done.

We finish taking our bath in silence when I take Gavin wrapped only in a towel, sit him on my lap to apologize, and it went something like this:

So instead of being productive and archiving the family events for the past week, I decided to whip out an About page. It seemed necessary, but I'm not sure why.

This morning I left some cryptic status messages of "is going to the hospital to see if he is pregnant" and at this moment I'm "is 93% sure he's not pregnant. www.plurk.com/p/2alfp". No this is not some sly way of saying Colleen is pregnant and performing pee tests and ultrasounds using warm gelatinous goo... wait there was an ultrasound... for me.

It started off with chest pains.

So I visited the doctor last Thursday to cover four things (because I need several reasons to go visit the doctor, not just one).

So the last two are not that sexy of blogging fodder, so lets just say Allegra D, Singular, and some Antibiotics work great.

The Shoulder pain originated from doing some "Arnold Press" (or Scott Press) where you lift the dumbbell over your head starting with your palms facing your chest and end facing out over your head. After doing this at two different workouts I began to feel pain in my shoulders whenever I lifted anything (i.e. Gavin/Cooper) or biked at night. Prescription: take these 600mg Advils and call me in the morning.

Now to the chest pain. This is where it was weird as it was only present during and after workouts AND if I turned to the left at about the 90 degree mark. Think of this if you are driving and want to merge to the lane on your left on a busy highway. You turn to your left to check if there is anyone in your blind spot... and cue pain.

Well it seems that when you say "Chest Pain" Doctors get a little jittery and start lots of test. Pressure, tapping, breathing, verify if it is constant, able to replicate? Since I "passed" those test the doctor ordered some blood work to be performed, which resulted in "Abnormal LFT" and that requires a ultrasound. The few times I've experienced ultrasounds is when we get great little black and white pictures of our unborn babies, so I applied my subconscious mind and manifested the correlation between Colleen's pregnancy with my chest pains... so obviously I'm going to check and see if I'm pregnant.

Prior to the ultrasound, Colleen bombarded me with hypothetical sceanerios and questions on WTF is wrong with me. I became tired with the questions and drew out a diagram on the back of a piece of paper that looked something like this:

	Time
	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Activity	Exercise	Breakfast			Shake			Deli			Bar			Dinner
Protien (g)		12			35			6			15			7	75g
16oz Water	1	1		1	1			1		1		1		1	128oz
Drugs
Hydroxycut		2						2
CE2 HI-DEF		2						2
Multivitamin		2
Omega-3		2
Allegra D		1												1
Singular		1

So, to accomplish my exercise goals, I take about 75g of protein and drink about 128oz of water every day. The pills are for increasing metabolism and to enhance the benefits of lifting weights, and to make me smarter because I feel dumb at this point. Everything points to a good diet and being healthy, it just seems that I'm not processing the protein quite right per the lab results.

I received the call back from the Dr. from my baby checkup and they confirmed everything is OK. I'm not pregnant, and my liver, kidneys, heart, and lungs are fine. The one thing they forgot was to check my brain because I apparently must be insane on why my chest hurts. Oh well, I'll pop another Advil.